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Nicholas Spencer Fitzroy Cram-Sinclair

Registration number 20060215K

This certifies that the heraldic arms of
Nicholas Spencer Fitzroy Cram-Sinclair
incorporating the ancestral arms of
Jarl Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Lord of Shetland (c.1345 - c.1400)
are registered as an original design and are
described by the blazon below

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Design rationale

Updated inherited arms of the Shetlander baronial house of
Brough (Brugh/Burgh) founded by Hugh Sinclair (1563/87), major landowner, lineal cadet descendant of Scottish transatlantic voyager Henry Sinclair, 1st St.Clair/41st dynastic Norse/Norwegian 'Prince'-Jarl(Earl) of Orkney which was certified by his grandson/namesake within the Scottish Lyon Court archives of Joseph Stacey, Ross Herald (1663-86). The 4th quarter and human heart represent another Shetlander branch of Sinclair of Quendale.

The sparrowhawk crest represent armiger's maternal line of Orcadian/Jamaican mercantile family of Laing who were descended in the female-line from the aforesaid 'Prince'-Jarl Henry, whose Norse Viking ancestry/heritage is represented by raven badge and bottom motto in the ancient and now extinct Viking dialect of Orkney-Shetland known as Norn.

The middle inescutcheon is the armiger's titular representation of/to the English (anglicised) branch of the German von Cramm baronial/feudal lords of Oelber and Volkesheim, Duchy of Brunswick, Kingdom of Hanover.